There comes a time when a person needs to make a decision to enable greater personal effeciency. I need to make such a decision with my online life. I have tried to spread my thoughts in context across three separate blogs, but feel this has only resulted in ineffective and irregular blogging on my part. [...]
Due to a few presentations I’ve given lately, a re-focus on the application of higher order thinking to health education has resulted. In particular I have been focussing on whether our assessment tasks lead students to demonstrate higher order thinking and whether our evidence collection methods can demonstrate the ability of our students to demonstrate [...]
Today I had the chance to present research of personal interest to the syllabus review sub-committee. The research I presented was entitled Online Learning and the Evaluation of Group Process by D.N.Phillip. I became aware of this article from Stephen Downes OL Daily.
The particular aspects of the report I was interested in related to a [...]
At this stage the class has reduced the list of Wikipedia health concerns to 10 they believe are relevant within the school as a setting. I prepared these 10 health concerns on separate templates, and stored them on separate memory sticks. I used memory sticks as students don’t have permissions to write to network spaces. [...]
This first week of the environmental health unit is based in a more traditional approach of education where I deliver knowledge to the class. I begin in this fashion to ensure an equitable access to what I consider the important background knowledge for the unit. I base the beginning of each of my units within [...]
